The Foundation's Advisory Board
The Advisory Board advises the Board of Trustees and the Board of Directors on all matters relating to content and organisation. It is made up of representatives of memorial sites, institutions, groups and initiatives, academics and other qualified individuals who are involved with the Foundation's mission. The members are appointed for a period of three years by the Chairman of the Board of Trustees in agreement with the highest federal authority in charge of culture.
Members of the Advisory Board (as of July 2023)
Dieter Dombrowski
Chairman of the Advisory Board
Landrat a. D. (District Administrator)
Chairman of the Union der Opferverbände kommunistischer Gewaltherrschaft e.V. (Union of Victims' Associations of Communist Tyranny)
Prof. Dr. Hermann Wentker
Deputy Chair of the Advisory Board
Head of the Berlin branch of the Institute of Contemporary History
Marianne Birthler
Former Federal Commissioner
for Stasi Records
Dr. Uta Bretschneider
Director of the Leipzig Forum of Contemporary History
Dr. Jens Gieseke
Leibnitz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam
Dr. Anna Kaminsky
Director of the Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship
Prof. Dr. Axel Klausmeier
Director of the Berlin Wall Foundation
Ulrike Kretzschmar
Director of Exhibitions at the German Historical Museum
Birgit Neumann-Becker
Commissioner of the State of Saxony-Anhalt for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship
Carla Ottmann
Deputy Chair of the Union der Opferverbände kommunistischer Gewaltherrschaft e.V. (Union of Victims' Associations of Communist Tyranny)
Ulrike Poppe
Former Commissioner of the State of Brandenburg for Dealing with the Consequences of the Communist Dictatorship
Mario Röllig
Former political prisoner
Tom Sello
Former Berlin Commissioner for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship
Edda Schönherz
Former political prisoner,
presenter and author
Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Veen
University of Trier
Head of the Berlin branch of the Institute of Contemporary History